ark
UK/ɑːk//ɑɹk/
ark noun: a large box with a flat lid.
Noun
ark (plural arks)
- A large box with a flat lid.
- Then said he, "Your child is at home in the inner bedroom in a new cradle behind the ark."1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 228
- The ship built by Noah to save his family and a collection of animals from the deluge; Noah's ark.
- In the midrash about Noah it says that Noah had a stone which, when held up in the darkness of the ark, would change color when the sun was shining outside.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 201
- Something affording protection; safety, shelter, refuge.
- the Ark of Bukhara
- The body as a vessel.
- Like her I go; I cannot stay;
I leave this mortal ark behind,
A weight of nerves without a mind,
And leave the cliffs, and haste away […]1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC
- Like her I go; I cannot stay;
- A spacious type of boat with a flat bottom.
- Some seventy or seventy-five arks were permanently located on McLeod's Lake and between 110 and 125 people lived in them.1990, Lou Sullivan, chapter 7, in From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland, page 76
- The Ark of the Covenant.
- A decorated cabinet at the front of a synagogue, in which Torah scrolls are kept.
Proper noun capitalized: Ark
the Ark
- The boat built by the Biblical Noah to carry himself and the animals of the planet during the Flood.
- The chest carried by the Hebrews containing the stone tablets carved with the Ten Commandments.
ark meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu
ark in Hindi
- Noah's ship
- कश्ती kaśtī
ark in Tamil
- யூதம், கிறிஸ்த்தவம், அடிப்பக்கம் அகலமுள்ளப் படகு, பெட்டி, பேழை
ark in Urdu
- کشتی
ark in Telugu
- ఆర్క్
More languagesFewer languages
- ark in Malayalam
- പേടകം pēṭakaṁ
- ark in Kannada
- ಪೆಠಾರಿ
- ark in Odia
- ସିନ୍ଦୁକ
- ark in Nepali
- सन्दूक
- ark in Arabic
- سَفِينَة safīna, فُلْك fulk
- ark in Malay
- bahtera
- ark in Indonesian
- tabut, peti, bahtera
- ark in Persian
- کشتی kašti
- ark in Vietnamese
- tàu
Examples of ark in a sentence
- Animals entered Noah's ark in twos.
- Japan and China also produced Noah's arks, where Noah was known as Fohi.
- Ark at ee, it’s our old friend MARK ‘NOT THAT ONE’ OWEN, the moribund boss of troubled equine charity HorseWorld!
Synonyms of ark
Forms of ark
| plural | arks |
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Origin of ark
From Middle English arke, from Old English earc, ærc, from Latin arca (“chest, box, coffer”), from arceō (“to enclose”).
Words formed from ark
Phrases with ark
Words that rhyme with ark
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Questions about ark
- What does ark mean?
- Ark means a large box with a flat lid.
- What is ark in Hindi?
- Ark in Hindi is कश्ती (kaśtī). See Ark meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is ark?
- Ark can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce ark?
- Ark is pronounced /ɑːk/ (UK).
- What is the plural of ark?
- The plural of ark is arks.
Words near ark in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ark (page history and authors); Ark (page history and authors); ark (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ark (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ark (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); പേടകം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ark (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ark (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ark (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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